Julie Kay Webster was found dead in Wyoming, August 2, 2006, less than a mile from her car. Julie, a 58-year-old woman with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, lived in Deephaven, Minnesota and had set out to pick up her daughter at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. She never arrived at the airport. Julie drove west, perhaps thinking she was on her way to visit her friend in California.
We, of course, don’t know what was on Julie’s mind. But she must have felt fear after her...
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